Cycle 112 (some hills)

Every once in a while I go for a departure from my usual alternative/electronic/metal/punk playlists.  If I piss you off, I’m sorry, but I guarantee someone, somewhere will dig this.

This ride has some hills in it.

Warm up

  • Pow-Pow – LCD Soundsystem: warm-up, tabata sprints.

Workout

  • Good Girls Go Bad – Cobra Starship: false flat, power pushes.
  • Live Your Life – T.I.: seated/standing hill, light hill gear.
  • Showdown – Black Eyed Peas: moderate hill with 20rpm speedups.
  • The Game – Jurassic Park: start on false flat, add 2 gears every 45sec, end standing climb.
  • Surprise rest…
  • Empire State of Mind – Jay-Z: seated/standing hill, moderate hill gear.
  • OMG – Usher: seated moderate hill, standing hard hill.
  • Ghosts n Stuff – Deadmau5: distance trial.
  • Bad Romance – Lady GaGa: flat road/false flat standing/seated false flat sprints.

Cool down

  • Young Forever – Jay-Z
  • Tennessee – Arrested Development
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Cycle 100

Cadence-driven ride with some intervals mixed in.

Warm-up

  • Extreme Ways – Moby

Workout

  • Beautiful Thieves – AFI
  • Are You the One? – The Presets
  • Parlez Vous Francais? – Art vs. Science
  • Burn it Down – AWOL Nation
  • Fist of God – MSTRKRFT  30:20 intervals
  • Savior – Rise Against
  • Ion Square – Bloc Party  time trial
  • Undisclosed Desires – Muse
  • Polygon – Shock One  30:20 intervals
  • Worked Up So Sexual – The Faint

Cool down

  • Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
  • Karma Police – Radiohead
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Cycle 104

Tempo ride with some intervals… nice and loud!

Warm-up

  1. Wheels- Foo Fighters

Workout

  1. Harmonic – Unwritten Law
  2. Jellybelly – Smashing Pumpkins
  3. Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
  4. Mudshovel - Staind
  5. Night of the Hunter - 30 Seconds to Mars
  6. Burn, Burn - Lostprophets
  7. The Perfect Drug - Nine Inch Nails
  8. Up In Arms - Foo Fighters
  9. Captain Bligh - Filter
  10. Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) - Lostprophets

Cool down

  1. Wake for Young Souls - Third Eye Blind
  2. Across The Sea - Weezer
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Cycle 47, redux

Took an older playlist and refreshed it… lots of intervals in this one. Let me know what you think!

Warm-up

  • Tripping Billies    Dave Matthews Band. flat, easy.
  • How Far We’ve Come    Matchbox Twenty. standing jog.
  • The Great Escape    Boys Like Girls. seated sprint.
  • Top of the World    The All-American Rejects. easy standing climb.

Intervals

  • Oil and Water    Incubus. high gear standing sprints.
  • The Good Left Undone    Rise Against. flat road power pushes.
  • Hyper Music    Muse. flat road time trial.
  • Time Bomb    Dave Matthews Band. rest 2:40, flat road time trial heavier gear.
  • Devil In a Midnight Mass    Billy Talent. medium gear stay on cadence.
  • Be Good    Tokyo Police Club. higher cadence stay with gear.
  • Playing With the Boys    Kenny Loggins. active recovery standing jogs.
  • Pushing Me Away    Linkin Park. seated accelerations.
  • Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)    Foo Fighters. standing sprints.

Cool down

  • Better Way    Ben Harper
  • Never Tear Us Apart    INXS
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